Publications

Yichen Zhai* and Michael T. Tolley*, (2025), “Electronics-Free 3D-Printed Soft Swimming Robot with Pneumatic Oscillating Control for Efficient Undulating Locomotion”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10 (8), 7891-7898. (*Corresponding authors) 

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Yichen Zhai*, Jiayao Yan, Albert De Boer, Martin Faber, Rohini Gupta, and Michael T. Tolley*, (2025), “Monolithic Desktop Digital Fabrication of Autonomous Walking Robots”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 7 (5), 2400876. (*Corresponding authors)

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Xiaoran Zha, Saurabh Jadhav, Iman Adibnazari, Yichen Zhai, and Michael T. Tolley, (2024), “Scalable arrays of pneumatic sensors for multitouch soft skins”, 2024 IEEE 7th international conference on soft robotics (RoboSoft), 1088-1094.

Shuo-En Wu† , Longhui Zeng†, Yichen Zhai†, Chanho Shin, Naresh Eedugurala, Jason D. Azoulay, and Tse Nga Ng, (2023), “Retinomorphic Motion Detector Fabricated with Organic Infrared Semiconductors”, Advanced Science, 10 (31), 2304688. (†Equal contribution）

Yichen Zhai*, Albert De Boer, Jiayao Yan, Benjamin Shih, Martin Faber, Joshua Speros, Rohini Gupta, and Michael T. Tolley*, (2023), “Desktop Fabrication of Monolithic Soft Robotic Devices with Embedded Fluidic Control Circuits”, Science Robotics, 8 (79), eadg3792. (*Corresponding authors)

Shuo-En Wu, Napasorn Phongphaew, Yichen Zhai, Lulu Yao, Hsun-Hao Hsu, Alan Shiller, Jason D. Azoulay, and Tse Nga Ng, (2022), “Multiplexed printed sensors for in situ monitoring in bivalve aquaculture”, Nanoscale, 14 (43), 16110-16119.

Yichen Zhai, Michael T. Tolley, and Tse Nga Ng, (2022), “Digital Programming of Liquid Crystal Elastomers to Achieve High-Fidelity Surface Morphing”, Applied Materials Today, 27, 101501.

Yichen Zhai and Tse Nga Ng, (2021), “Self-sustained robots based on functionally graded elastomeric actuators carrying up to 22 times their body weight”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5 (4), 2100085.

Yichen Zhai, Zhijian Wang, Kye-Si Kwon, Shengqiang Cai, Darren J. Lipomi, and Tse Nga Ng, (2020), “Printing Multi-Material Organic Haptic Actuators”, Advanced Materials, 33 (19), 2002541.

Yichen Zhai, Jiyeon Lee, Quyen Hoang, Dan Sievenpipper, Harinath Garudadri, and Tse Nga Ng, (2018), “A printed wireless fluidic pressure sensor”, Flexible Printed Electronics, 3 (3), 035006.

Zhenghui Wu, Yichen Zhai, Weichuan Yao, Naresh Eedugurala, Song Zhang, Lifeng Huang, Xiaodan Gu, Jason D Azoulay, and Tse Nga Ng, (2018), “The Role of Dielectric Screening in Organic Shortwave Infrared Photodiodes for Spectroscopic Image Sensing”, Advanced Functional Materials, 28 (50), 1805738.

Zhenghui Wu, Yichen Zhai, Hyonwoong Kim, Jason D. Azoulay, and Tse Nga Ng, (2018), “Emerging Design and Characterization Guidelines for Polymer-Based Infrared Photodetectors”, Accounts of Chemical Research, 51 (12), 3144–3153.